THE UNBROKEN LINK

[Ms Tercy Lonan]

THE UNBROKEN LINK
This holy land (Bharatavarsha) of ours with its lofty culture has been uniquely blessed and
privileged by a continuous and unbroken stream of spiritual teachers, saints, devotees and savants
to guide and uphold the arduous march of its men, ever reminding them of the true goal of life and
preventing mankind from slipping into erroneous tracks at each critical moment. Look at our
ancient history and you will find not a single generation which has been deprived of God-sent men
who would ever hold high the banner of truth along with their clarion-call to humanity to remain
ever vigilant and never forget the real purpose of life.
They never proclaimed anything as a conclusion of mere intellectual activity and labour of
the thinking faculty but they did so on the basis of the profound authority of direct intuitional
realisation of the Absolute. So whatever these ancient sages and Rishis have proclaimed in the
Upanishads, it is from their direct experience in the core of their inmost spiritual being. They did not
care to adduce any argument in their support or to induce acceptance. They just stated boldly what
they KNEW AS TRUTH. And what is it that they have declared? It is
“O children of Immortality!
Ye are not the perishable physical body
Nor the ever-changing mind, nor the reasoning intellect.
But ye are the master of all these,
The supreme conscious-Being,
the unattached witnessing Spirit or Atman
beyond the reach of the mind and the intellect,
Different and distinct from body, mind and intellect.
Realise this fact and live in the awareness of your true Spirit.”
They have also shown the path that leads to this grand experience. We, as true descendants
of our ancient Rishis and worthy sons of Bharatavarsha, should never lose sight of the great purpose
of life which can be nothing else than God-realisation. Let no one be deceived by becoming a
travesty of alien culture in the name of the so-called material prosperity.
The goodness of a tree is known ultimately by its fruits either sweet or bitter. The past two
great world-wars bear the testimony of the destructive horror of the so-called advanced civilisation
under the most modern scientific knowledge.
“I would like to bow down from a pretty distance to such deceiving knowledge and prefer
one thousand times to be called the ignorant and cling fast to my soul-uplifting culture and heritage
which guarantees me purity, manliness, divinity, character, integrity, unselfishness and love for
mankind.”
Be careful, brethren, that scientific knowledge devoid of religion and spirituality will
quicken only the world-doom since it provides in the hand of the all-devouring brutal instinct of the
degenerated man another addition of deadly power for self-destruction.
Power verily corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Therefore neglect not the foremost duty of building up character, nobility, godliness and
love for the search of your true nature.